Publication Data

Place of Publication

Cairo

Country of Publication

Egypt

Imprint

The American University in Cairo Press

Dimensions

Pagination

192

Credits

Translated by

Alexa Firat

Description

Author Biography

Khalil Sweileh was born in Hasaka, Syria, in 1959, and graduated from Damascus University in 1986 with a degree in literature. He is the author of three collections of poetry and four novels. He is editor-in-chief of the Syrian Tishrin Cultural Supplement, and is the literary correspondent of the Lebanese newspaper al-Akhbar. Alexa Firat is assistant professor of Arabic in the Department of Critical Languages at Temple University.